SOCS2100 Lecture 2: SOCS2100 Week 2 Lecture
29 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
SOCS2100
Organizational Management and Social Behavior
March 7, 2018
WEEK 2
Models of Management
Social Behavior
• “What people do”
• Dependent on a variety of internal and external influences / contexts
• Cultural beliefs, practices, norms are PRODUCED and REPRODUCED through social
phenomena such as institutions, media, myth, legend/story, family, work,
government, community, etc.
• Explored through
o Sociology
o Anthropology
o Psych
o Economics
o Politics
o Philosophy/ethics
o History
o Human geography
o Environmental science
Management
• What do you understand about the term?
o Centered on achieving a goal in the most efficient way
▪ Time
▪ Organization’s goals and structures
▪ Individual’s capabilities
▪ Financial resources
• Why do we have it? What’s its purpose?
o Efficiency of time and effort
o Direction to achieve goal in most efficient way we can
▪ Simplest explanation is always the answer
• What does management suggest about the structure of organizations?
o More of management fall at the top
▪ Fewer to guide the masses
o Problems
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▪ Communication takes long to get to the top
▪ Strong power imbalance, being told what to do
• Who or what is a manager?
o Someone who organizes people
o Follows mission and vision of org
o Everyone involved in the organization, to some degree
• What qualities would a successful manager have?
o Organizational skills
o Someone with foresight of problems occurring
o Approachable
o Good communication/listening skills
o Good decision maker
o Good disciplinarian
o Good conflict resolution skills to avoid unpleasant culture
• Is management necessary?
o To make decisions
o Efficiency
o Someone needed to direct people to do something in the best way
Management and Managers
• Bosses
o Make things work
o Take responsibility
o Look at day to day ops
o Strategic planning
o Mission planning
o Looking after people – employees, volunteers, clients, things/resources, service
provision, profits, outcomes
Models of Management
Management as a Profession
• Usually now if you graduate with a degree in BusAd you can become a manager
• Outsider might not have loyalty/experience to get respect from people
o No trust
o Potential conflict
• Theory vs experience of being in an org
Management skills, learning to be a manager
• You can train to be a manager
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Document Summary
Management: what do you understand about the term, centered on achieving a goal in the most efficient way, time, organization"s goals and structures, financial resources. Is management necessary: to make decisions, efficiency, someone needed to direct people to do something in the best way. Management and managers: bosses, make things work, take responsibility, look at day to day ops, strategic planning, mission planning, looking after people employees, volunteers, clients, things/resources, service provision, profits, outcomes. Management skills, learning to be a manager: you can train to be a manager, no need to build your way up an organization. Complex ideas are usually simplified in order to travel. Management ideas have spread globally for a long time. Wherever economic activity has been spread across the globe, then general management theories have developed, often suggesting that there is one best way to manage.
